Switching to updoots for post appreciation button

This is a quick post about the ‘post appreciation buttons’, in case you are a regular visitor, and were wondering why they looked different suddenly.I used to use iine to power the little heart buttons that sat in each post heading. I’m not sure if there’s a catch-all term for this kind of thing, but they are emoji buttons visitors can click to show some kind of support/appreciation/mild approbation for the writing in that post. You click the thing, it adds 1 to a counter and displays that next to the emoji, and I get a sense that at least some real humans read the page, not just AI scrapers.I used iine because it was privacy-protecting, and it was possible to self-host it. I followed their instructions to set it up at Supabase, but while this worked fine, Supabase is a massively powerful sledgehammer to crack a very tiny and soft-shelled nut. I didn’t really want to maintain another service just for this little, nice-to-have thing.Luckily for me, Adam Newbold, aka Neatnik — Maker of…

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